What We Do

Give Something Back to Berlin's Open Art Shelter has been invited to create a cosy space in a new refugee home in Charlottenburg.

Kicking off in January, Give Something Back to Berlin's latest project Sprachcafé sees newcomers of all kinds meeting with native German speakers to practice speaking German every week.

On a cold January day GSBTB hosted a large group of American and Danish students who were in Berlin to learn about German history, migration, multicultural communities and the refugee topic.

The GSBTB Open Art Shelter visits the Neuhardenberg Refugee Camp, an hour-and-a-half's drive east of Berlin.

Every month at Give Something Back to Berlin we organise a community event where refugees and Berliners of all kinds – Germans, recently-settled “expats” etc. – come together to meet new people.

For the first few hours of Christmas day I really regretted my decision to have a Berlin Christmas. Luckily, I had kept one tradition – the stress of trying to cook Christmas dinner.

Join us for our weekly GSBTB English! We start again at the beginning of January.

Simply WOW. The community team up yesterday went better than we ever could have wished for!

These nice words came from the team at the homeless organisation Frostschutzengel who thanked all you GSBTBerliner volunteers for your commitment in 2015.

Our Christmas Party Music Extravaganza event last week was a culmination of all the best parts of this year in the life of Give Something Back to Berlin.

Once dubbed the “mother of all airports”, Tempelhof Airport is now welcoming refugees into its bosom.

A fabulous new initiative offers tours through the heart of the refugee rights movement in Berlin.